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| New al-Qaeda leaders emerging |
| 2004-08-10 |
| A new portrait of Al Qaeda's inner workings is emerging from the cache of information seized last month in Pakistan, as investigators begin to identify a new generation of operatives who appear to be filling the vacuum created when leaders were killed or captured, senior intelligence officials said Monday. Using computer records, e-mail addresses and documents seized after the arrest of Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan last month in Pakistan, intelligence analysts say they are finding that Al Qaeda's upper ranks are being filled by lower-ranking members and more recent recruits. "They're a little bit of both,'' one official said, describing Al Qaeda's new midlevel structure. "Some who have been around and some who have stepped up. They're reaching for their bench.'' |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 Why do I get this flash of the hothouse scene from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"? One does wonder. :\ I just hope I live long enough to see what comes out when they start declasifying this stuff a la the WW II stuff in the 1980's |
| Posted by: N Guard 2004-08-10 10:55 |
| #3 Sort of like the new Hamas leaders that emerge from time to time. Trying to keep themselves anonymous before a Hellfire missiles forces them to step down (way down). |
| Posted by: yank 2004-08-10 10:38 |
| #2 "New al-Qaeda leaders emerging" Why do I get this flash of the hothouse scene from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"? |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-08-10 01:05 |
| #1 He appears to represent what authorities said was a different kind of Qaeda recruit, a convert to Islam who did not appear to have been trained in Mr. bin Ladenâs Afghanistan camps. According to this bio, al-Hindi was born into a Hindu household but âreverted to Islam at the age of 20.â He fought in the disputed Kashmir region in the mid-1990s before returning to Britain. After writing the manual, it says, he went to Afghanistan for a year and became a âtrainer in one of the many Mujahideen training camps.â |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2004-08-10 01:02 |